The Arena (1974)

Starring:

• Margaret Markov
• Pam Grier
• Lucretia Love

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Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem. Someone suggests, after a hectic girl fight in a kitchen between a Nubian and a Viking slave, as a joke, that they should fight in the arena, instead of male gladiators. The idea is approved, though - and a female "Spartacus" theme follows.

Jerry Goldsmith - Take A Hard Ride (1975)

01 The Hunter
02 Main Title
03 Memories
04 The Search
05 The Snake
06 Uneasy Alliance
07 Friendly Enemies
08 Fancy Footwork
09 Hunter's Harmonica
10 A Sad Story
11 The Ambush
12 The Wagon
13 The Big Dive
14 The Aftermath
15 The Trek
16 The Mines
17 Work Camp
18 The Last Adversary
19 A Long Walk

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Take A Hard Ride Soundtrack CD music Take a Hard Ride is a 1975 western set in America, produced by Italians, and starring a 'blaxploitation' cast-no kidding! The score is stirring and majestic and yet with quirkier touches, and represented Jerry Goldsmith's last western until the 1994 Bad Girls. Take A Hard Ride Soundtrack music CDs Its muscular, memorable main theme and Stravinsky-esque action cues are among the highlights.

The Cool World (1964)

Starring:

• Hampton Clanton
• Yolanda Rodríguez
• Bostic Felton
• Gary Bolling
• Carl Lee
• Clarence Williams III
• Gloria Foster
• Georgia Burke

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Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society. There is no patronizing of the black race in this cinematic cry for justice. A fifteen-year-old boy called Duke is ambitious to buy a "piece" (a gun) from an adult racketeer named Priest, to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem. It is a clearly patent allegory of an attempt by Duke to attain manhood and identity in the only way accessible to him - the antisocial one.

Black Dragon's Revenge (1975)

Starring:

• Ron Van Clief 
• Charles Bonet
• Phillip Ko

Storyline

Like many films that come out of Hong Kong after Bruce Lee's death, The Black Dragon's Revenge looks at the speculation over the cause of Lee's death coupled with vows of several of Bruce's disciples to avenge his alleged murder. Also released as The Death of Bruce Lee, this Grade-A Brucesploitation (also Blax-fu) flick starring Ron Van Clief (The Black Dragon), Charles Bonet (Death Promise), and Bobby Canavarro (Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold).